Daniland
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This is an imaginary landscape taken somewhere far far away.
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This shot was also taken in an imaginary place far far away.
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Well just for something completely different from the last lot of dark and mysterious Infrared landscapes…. this is the first of a little run of colour images from a wonderful little Holga toy camera. This image was however also taken in the same location in the Hunter Valley at the place I think of as daniland. When I go to stay there I get to sleep in the cutest most beautiful little cabin that is attached to the main studio. Out the front of this cabin is a little wooden porch that looks over a dam and across a deep and heavily wooded valley. There is a little table with some chairs there and on the table is this lovely little bonsai tree. On this particular morning there was a very heavy fog….. not unusual for this location even in the height of summer…. although it will burn off in the sun in a couple of hours after sunrise. But I just love the way the fog makes the landscape so intensely mysterious and just a tiny bit scary… great for taking photo’s even when you can hardly see the ground infront of you…...
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todays upload is another pretty little shot taken at a friends place in the Hunter Valley with a cute as a button Holga camera. This lovely little plastic fantastic camera was loaded with 120 film ….Ecktachrome 64 …. for those who get into that sort of stuff…. anyway that means its an E6 process…. so its a transparency….. and there has been no fiddleing in Photoshop…. that lovely softness and the remarkable depth of the colour…. its all on the negative…... ahhhh film…...:) Look really really closely and you can see the tiny little row boat we use to put the beer in when swimming in this pocket sized dam when swimming with the yabbies. In the evenings the wallabys and galahs all come down to have a drink here…. so beautiful….
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the next upload in my holga madness series. This is the same little boat in the same little dam as the shot I posted yesterday…. this time however its very very early in the morning and the rosy blush of the dawn sky can be seen reflected in the glassy waters of this beautiful little billabong. The little boat just serenely floats at the end of its tether waiting for the day to being and for people to seek it out and use its physicality rather just admire its form from the bank.
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Today’s holga upload is another shot of this sweet little row boat floating on the glassy stillness of this little dam. The little white shapes in the background near the water are white sulphur crested cockatoos that have come to have a drink in the cool early morning before they get about the business of being busy and raucous for the rest of the day…. and seriously there is nothing as ear splitting as a bunch of cockatoos in full voice….. worse than a mach truck or a harley revving in the next room…. pretty though even if they are the delinquents of the bird world…....
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This image is the prototype for a new body of work I’m developing for exhibition at Parliment House later in the year. The thing is that the wall where the works will be hung are dark port wine coloured. So I’m thinking the black and white prints in a white matt and black frame are going to look really sombre against the background so I’ve been fooling about with a little colour with these dreamy Infrared landscapes. There will be maybe six or even eight of them all about 20×24 inches then the framing so they will be a decent size when finished….. anyway my question is…. does this muted colour add to the image or detract? should I just stick to the B/W?
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I’m preparing a new body of work for exhibiton later in the year and am working out ways to present these images. Yesterday I posted a single image muted landscpe #2 in order to invite some responses to the way I preparing the indivdual images with a very muted colouring and now today I’m posting a pair of images in a way that will replicate the way I want to present them. I’m thinking that I would do either three or four pairs of linked images individually framed but hung together in a series of pairs so that they will sort of look like this one….... Each photograph will be printed at around 20×24 inches and then with the matting and framing I estimate each pair will need about 2 metres of wall space for hanging. Let me know what you all think while I’m open to suggestions with this body of work and I’ll listen to all suggestions….... ta muchly in advance…...
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every couple of months I head out of town and go and stay with a dear friend up in the Hunter Valley…... it’s a stunningly beautiful area and I never tire of photographing the landscape there. My friends live on the crest of a hill that rims a series of very dreamy misty valleys and there are many flooded creeks and little lakes to be found all around this lovely place. My favorite place in this chain of valleys is a tiny little hidden lake with a nautral sandstone grotto at its head and a minute island in the centre of it. The lake is only around 20 odd metres in length and the island is only big enough for two trees but it’s beauty is staggering. It’s like an ancient holy place and to just stand by the shoreline is a form of meditation. I have no idea if it has a proper name or not being so small but from the first time I saw it …. I’ve called it Genevieve’s Lake….. and the swirly misty magic of the landscape takes me away into other dimensions…... no perfidious Albian here….. just a faint lingering sense of the Lady of the Lake…...
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this is an image of the tiny island that is found in the centre of a minute but magical little lake that is hidden deep inside a misty valley deep with the Hunter Valley. I think of the little lake as Geneviere’s Lake with all it’s connotations of the Authurian stories that filled my head as a child….. the time of Camelot passed into history and coloured the centuries that followed with greatness and with melancholy. Part of the power of the legend was contained in the story of Geneviere and of the Lady of the Lake who keeps the great blade Excalibur safe till it’s time comes again. A bier is a place where a corpse or coffin rests before burial and this perfect little island in it’s setting of staggering natural beauty is the bier for my understanding of the legacy of the story of Geneviere and the Lady of Shallot.
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I’m developing a new body of work of an exhibition later in the year and am trying out a few ideas for presenting the works…. a couple of days ago I uploaded muted landscape and asked for feedback and that’s been great…. now I’m looking at a different way of presenting the work… perhaps forget the frames all together and have each of the pairs printed like this at close to mural size on a black background and then suspend them in the gallery…... hmmmm this could all change again tomorrow…... but let me know what you think about losing the white of the border that comes with actual framing….. thanks
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Another paired IR landscape for an upcoming show. possibly. I’‘ll make four pairs in all but most likely will only produce two pairs for the exhibition. The first one was this one and the second pair was this one So I’m still fooling about with the final selection and will observe and take note of what people think here…..
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I’ve been posting some new works lately that I’ve made for an exhibition at Parliment House in Sydney next week. I’ve previously posted a series of double landscapes and while I’ve been doing that I started to experiment with a new technique of digital handcolouring. I’ve applied that new concept…. well new to me anyway…. to a large pair of infrared landscapes and have gone a bit wild with it….. and that’s cool ….. I’m excited by the new stark look of these prints and will post these new work first singlely and then at they will look as a pair. Each print is A1 in size and they have been matted with very nice stippled leather matts and then framed in a glossy jet black box frame. Each framed print is 105 cms by 77 cms and they hang together to create another broken landscape…. somewhat similar to the doubled muted landscapes I’ve been posting lately but seriously different as well….. stark, elegant and owing more than a nod to Modernism in their inception. I can’t wait till next week when I’ll be able to see them hung for the first time….... meanwhile these screen shots will need to suffice …...
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The second in my latest series of digitally handcoloured double landscapes. The first is here Athough they are both whole images in themselves … it’s only when they hang together that the actual art work is complete.
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this is a pretty ordinary mock up of the two seperate images that make up my latest artwork. In real life each print is A1 in size with a beautiful and unusual stipled leather matt and a glossy box frame. The total dimensions of each framed image is about 105cms by 77.5 cms…. the two hung together are over 2 metres in length and as they were designed to hang on the deep burgandy leather walls that are found in the reception area of Parliment House in Sydney I’ve focused on making them stark and elgant.
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on my recent quick road trip through the back blocks of NSW to look at some property out near Mudgee I stayed over one night with a friend at Luguna which is near Wollombi…. a place made famous for it’s prehistoric pines…. anyway early in the mornings there are often heavy fogs that rise up out of the valley and while they burn of with the heat of the day… for those sweet still early moments they give such a beautiful peace to the country… this is what it looks like standing on top of the hill were the house is looking over on of the little dams across the to the valley beyond… so beautiful
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staying over at a friends place and waking up at sparrows fart to a total whiteout… the deep heavy fog was so devine and walking through it around one of the little dams was so lovely… this is what the ghostly reflections looked like in the water… I find it interesting that the reflections seem more solid than the trees and scrubby bush that are being reflected….. anyway it’s a magical place and I love to go there and spend a little time…
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